. . . at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your … - Gertrude Bell

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The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.

Gertrude Bell

. . . at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.

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It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

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To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. . . . See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

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